Whether or not the public lending of e-books is treated, in EU copyright law, in the same manner as the public lending of traditional books has been a relatively contentious topic among EU Member States.

The CJEU has held that a system in Spain whereby the equitable remuneration payable in respect of private copying paid to rights holders out of the General State Budget is not compatible with EU copyright law.

Deloitte estimates that the FinTech industry has the potential to employ over 10,000 people in Ireland by the year 2020. So it's no surprise that interest in Ireland's FinTech ‘hub' in Dublin is booming.

Copyright is an intellectual property right and gives the owner the right to prevent others from copying the work, making copies available to the public, publicly performing the work or making adaptations of it.